Manfred Korfmann
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Manfred Korfmann was a German archaeologist best known for directing major late 20th-century excavations at the ancient site of Troy and reshaping scholarly views of its historical significance.
All labels observed (1)
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| Manfred Korfmann canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5007572 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Manfred Korfmann Context triple: [Troy, excavatedBy, Manfred Korfmann]
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A.
Reinhold Seeberg
Reinhold Seeberg was a prominent German Lutheran theologian and church historian known for his influential work on dogmatics and for mentoring figures such as Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
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B.
Eckhard Pfeiffer
Eckhard Pfeiffer is a German-American businessman best known for serving as CEO of Compaq Computer Corporation during its rapid expansion in the 1990s.
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C.
Günther Sabetzki
Günther Sabetzki was a prominent German ice hockey executive and long-serving president of the International Ice Hockey Federation who played a key role in modernizing and internationalizing the sport.
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D.
Wulf-Dieter Burwitz
Wulf-Dieter Burwitz was the son of Heinrich Himmler’s daughter Gudrun, known primarily for his discreet but long-standing involvement in neo-Nazi and far-right circles in postwar Germany.
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E.
Werner Naumann
Werner Naumann was a German engineer and industrialist best known for his role in establishing the aircraft manufacturer Focke-Wulf, a key producer of military aircraft during World War II.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Manfred Korfmann Target entity description: Manfred Korfmann was a German archaeologist best known for directing major late 20th-century excavations at the ancient site of Troy and reshaping scholarly views of its historical significance.
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A.
Reinhold Seeberg
Reinhold Seeberg was a prominent German Lutheran theologian and church historian known for his influential work on dogmatics and for mentoring figures such as Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
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B.
Eckhard Pfeiffer
Eckhard Pfeiffer is a German-American businessman best known for serving as CEO of Compaq Computer Corporation during its rapid expansion in the 1990s.
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C.
Günther Sabetzki
Günther Sabetzki was a prominent German ice hockey executive and long-serving president of the International Ice Hockey Federation who played a key role in modernizing and internationalizing the sport.
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D.
Wulf-Dieter Burwitz
Wulf-Dieter Burwitz was the son of Heinrich Himmler’s daughter Gudrun, known primarily for his discreet but long-standing involvement in neo-Nazi and far-right circles in postwar Germany.
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E.
Werner Naumann
Werner Naumann was a German engineer and industrialist best known for his role in establishing the aircraft manufacturer Focke-Wulf, a key producer of military aircraft during World War II.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
German person
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archaeologist ⓘ human ⓘ university teacher ⓘ |
| activityStart | 20th century ⓘ |
| areaOfInfluence |
Anatolian archaeology
NERFINISHED
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classical archaeology ⓘ |
| continentOfCitizenship | Europe ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Germany ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
University of Munich
NERFINISHED
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University of Tübingen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | University of Tübingen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Korfmann NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Aegean archaeology
NERFINISHED
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Bronze Age archaeology ⓘ Near Eastern archaeology NERFINISHED ⓘ archaeology ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Manfred NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
excavations at Troy
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late 20th-century excavations at Hisarlik ⓘ research on the historicity of Troy ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
English
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German ⓘ |
| name | Manfred Korfmann NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | German ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
directed large-scale stratigraphic excavations at Troy
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reshaped scholarly views of Troy’s historical significance ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Tübingen–University of Cincinnati excavations at Troy
NERFINISHED
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publications on the archaeology of Troy ⓘ |
| occupation | archaeologist ⓘ |
| positionHeld | professor at the University of Tübingen ⓘ |
| researchInterest |
Aegean–Anatolian interactions
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Bronze Age Anatolia NERFINISHED ⓘ Trojan War period ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Hisarlik
NERFINISHED
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Troy NERFINISHED ⓘ Turkey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Manfred Korfmann Description of subject: Manfred Korfmann was a German archaeologist best known for directing major late 20th-century excavations at the ancient site of Troy and reshaping scholarly views of its historical significance.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.